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SCA: security update for phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin (GHSA-q4mm-89q2-xffg)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 434867

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - The simplexml_load_string function in the XML import plug-in (libraries/import/xml.php) in phpMyAdmin
 3.4.x before 3.4.7.1 and 3.3.x before 3.3.10.5 allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files
 via XML data containing external entity references, aka an XML external entity (XXE) injection attack.
 (CVE-2011-4107)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q4mm-89q2-xffg

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 434867

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/20/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-4107

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/2/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-4107

BID: 50497